The grumpy thread

31,981 · July 15, 2013

The argument was that someone posted a link to a HRMC report that stated a classic car had to be 15 years old and worth more than Ã‚Â£15000 to be classed as a classic which is total bollocks.

5,730 · July 15, 2013

The argument was that someone posted a link to a HRMC report that stated a classic car had to be 15 years old and worth more than Ã‚Â£15000 to be classed as a classic which is total bollocks.

Of course, because the international authority for classic cars is no other than our very own, beloved* HMRC.

The definitions produced by other, minor organisations like the FIVA are notoriously unreliable and heavily influenced by the extremist views of underground groups of non-sporting Cortina owners !

4,444 · July 15, 2013

The argument was that someone posted a link to a HRMC report that stated a classic car had to be 15 years old and worth more than Ã‚Â£15000 to be classed as a classic which is total bollocks.

IIRC that thing from the HMRC is about company car tax and older cars rather than any definition of what is or isn't a classic.

HMRC don't define what is a classic but they state that cars over 15 years old are treated differently for company car tax purposes regardless of if they are classic / old / retro (other pointless labels are available)

10,481 · July 15, 2013

Any Tina has to be a classic by now. The term "shite" covers anything newer.

2,865 · July 15, 2013

Went to drive the Style today and the gear link snapped, this time the big rod to the gear stick. Balls, so that's the "reliable" one off the road.

I briefly considered TAXing the Polonez but didn't quite have enough money, so I opted for filling the Samba Cabriolet up.

I hate it at the moment, I'm having such a bad day, I wish I just had a car I could rely on.. hopefully when the MG is on the road that will be the one again.

I bough AA cover today, that made me feel a bit better.

But the Cabriolet is far from right, also the petrol tank is leaking around the fuel gage unit in the top, and the new fuel gage sender is not working either. I don't know why I bother fixing things, everything I have fixed has broken again, bar - so far - the clutch.

Am I just wasting my time. Grump.

Oh well tomorrow is another day. And after 6pm tomorrow the cars can break down whenever they want wherever they want.

125,284 · July 15, 2013

You probably just need a Citroen AX in your life.

2,865 · July 15, 2013

I drove a customer's that had been in for repair after she fell asleep whilst driving down the motorway..

Reminded me very much of the Samba, quite acceptable but they do noting for me in any form other than GT.

It was supposed to be a Talbot, the Citroen AX.

4,066 · July 15, 2013

Two years ago I replaced fuel pipes on a van, instead of going to a proper shop for new pipe I went and used the internet like a lazy bastard, ended up buying from a 'specialist' and the new pipes are already rotten and pissing out. It's lucky that modern petrol smells so strong, I'm getting more than enough suntan at the mo.

24,088 · July 15, 2013

I've just had to sign as a witness for my mum being a Guarantor of my fucking moron sisters tenancy agreement when she goes to uni. It's Ã‚Â£330 a month for the year, fixed term. My mum couldn't afford to pay that even once, she's skint and can't work at the moment after being in a car crash.

My sister is a complete scumbag and if she lasts the first 6 months at uni without dropping out after being "picked on by lecturers" (which has been her excuse for being a lazy cow for the last 10 years) I'll be hugely surprised.

If she manages this 6 months without spending all student loan weeks before her rent needs paying atleast 3 times, I'll probably have a heart attack.

I'd absolutely love for my sister to turn herself around and really knuckle down, but all she has done all her life is lie to people to get money. She's quit 6 jobs in the last 9 months because the managers bullied her - she doesn't understand actually being asked to do something.

It's so depressing seeing my mum sign something which is almost bound to end up costing her thousands, but she's got no choice - if she doesn't, she'll be stopping her daughter going to uni and "fulfilling her dream of being a musician". If I was cynical I would suggest that she's only going to this uni to do this course because a few of her mates are. It's equally depressing watching my sister wilfully alienate her family and waste her chance at uni by being so lazy, manipulative and completely delusional.

100% shit situation. I'm off to search to make 100% sure that I can't be held responsible for anything by signing as a witness.

1k · July 15, 2013

Apparently I am only allowed to take 3 sacks of soil to the local "tip", so is that once a day, week, month?

The jobsworth there said they had a letter about it today or some such bollocks.

I've already lodged a complaint with the council who had no idea about it, I'm paying Ã‚Â£800 a year for my bin emptying once every two weeks and the chance someone in uniform will turn up if I'm robbed and on fire...

I'm pretty sure any money they save they lose twice over from fly tipping. If the barrier at the tip was any lower you'd need a Lotus to get in.

I wouldn't mind if it was asbestos or something but it's just soil from trying to make the garden look less of a shitheap for the sake of the street as it were.

I'm glad I put the asbestos I did have into the normal rubbish bin.

I'm sewing up some Great Escape trousers in order to dump it in the town centre.

9,372 · July 15, 2013

It's so depressing seeing my mum sign something which is almost bound to end up costing her thousands, but she's got no choice - if she doesn't, she'll be stopping her daughter going to uni and "fulfilling her dream of being a musician". If I was cynical I would suggest that she's only going to this uni to do this course because a few of her mates are. It's equally depressing watching my sister wilfully alienate her family and waste her chance at uni by being so lazy, manipulative and completely delusional.

100% shit situation. I'm off to search to make 100% sure that I can't be held responsible for anything by signing as a witness.

On the up side, you can't be held responsible as a witness. On the downside, Music degrees are normally taken by people who don't need to get a job at the end of it.....

4,379 · July 15, 2013

Flea treated the cat and a few days later I get an infestation of the damn things ,but since I don't have any Frontline on my neck they're all going for me. Little bastards are harder to kill than a K11 Micra as well

24,088 · July 15, 2013

On the up side, you can't be held responsible as a witness. On the downside, Music degrees are normally taken by people who don't need to get a job at the end of it.....

Yup, music is definitely a business where determination seems to matter overall, with talent following slightly behind and qualifications being about as much worth as tits on a breezeblock.

She is fairly talented, and if she tried really hard she could make something of it.

10,958 · July 16, 2013

Prove if it's ever needed that the Pistonheads forum is full of twats, after someone asking if there 20 year old RX7 was a classic and me saying it's a future classic someone pipes up to say this about my car.

IMHO Your Cortina isn't a classic because it's a Cortina (maybe if it's a Lotus Cortina that's different). There is no point in having the term 'classic' if it just means 'old'.

What a cock jockey.

What a bellend. He probably drives a 12 plate Golf TDI on finance, like most of the contributors there.

44,457 · July 16, 2013

Apparently I am only allowed to take 3 sacks of soil to the local "tip", so is that once a day, week, month?

The jobsworth there said they had a letter about it today or some such bollocks.

I've already lodged a complaint with the council who had no idea about it, I'm paying Ã‚Â£800 a year for my bin emptying once every two weeks and the chance someone in uniform will turn up if I'm robbed and on fire...

I'm pretty sure any money they save they lose twice over from fly tipping. If the barrier at the tip was any lower you'd need a Lotus to get in.

I wouldn't mind if it was asbestos or something but it's just soil from trying to make the garden look less of a shitheap for the sake of the street as it were.

I'm glad I put the asbestos I did have into the normal rubbish bin.

I'm sewing up some Great Escape trousers in order to dump it in the town centre.

If it's pretty good soil, just advertise it on Freecycle or Gumtree. Some folk are desperate for soil.

Council tips can be a right melting pot of jobsworthyness but fortunately they're very good around here. The biggest problem seems to be that they sometimes don't allow you to take a trailer in - but it's fine to park outside and walk stuff in. To be fair, it's a tiny yard once you get a trailer in the middle of it.

5,967 · July 16, 2013

I wish I just had a car I could rely on.. hopefully when the MG is on the road that will be the one again.

108,849 · July 16, 2013

I wish I just had a car I could rely on..

Where's the romance in that?

5,967 · July 16, 2013

If it's pretty good soil, just advertise it on Freecycle or Gumtree. Some folk are desperate for soil.

Council tips can be a right melting pot of jobsworthyness but fortunately they're very good around here. The biggest problem seems to be that they sometimes don't allow you to take a trailer in - but it's fine to park outside and walk stuff in. To be fair, it's a tiny yard once you get a trailer in the middle of it.

Just say 'OK', give him the wink, and then chuck the whole lot in. What can he do, make a citizens arrest or prevent you from emptying their made up law about three sacks?

What a bellend. He probably drives a 12 plate Golf TDI on finance, like most of the contributors there.

If you held a poll on there asking:

Which car would you have

a) a good fast car that'll fulfill your every need, but isn't German/silver/2013 plate

a diesel BMW/Audi/VW on finance,

they'd go for the one Jeremy Clarkson said was the 'best. car. (in it's class) that I. have. ever driven'.

When you're approaching 50 and your middle-management job in a consultancy company isn't what you would have like to have ended up in, and your wife isn't what you had hoped for, and your two kids Oliver and Joshua are the only productive thing you've brought into the world, a 2013 plate 320d company car is probably the peak achievement of your entire life. So fair play to those Pistonheader's and the views on cars they have that read like a new car brochure.

125,284 · July 16, 2013

And just like keyboard warriors these e-wallet flexing knob weasels are just trying to show off.

31,981 · July 16, 2013

"Hi, I'm looking for a classic car, It needs to be fun and be able to handle a daily 20 mile work commute, can anybody recommend me a car?"

Queue "Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB"

12,188 · July 16, 2013

they'd go for the one Jeremy Clarkson said was the 'best. car. (in it's class) that I. have. ever driven'.

He says that nearly every week though, especially if it's a racer/supercar.

4,737 · July 16, 2013

I sent my licence off last week for an address change, and I'm now paranoid that they'll f**k it up somehow. Why oh why didn't I photocopy it first?

July 16, 2013

I sent my licence off last week for an address change, and I'm now paranoid that they'll f**k it up somehow. Why oh why didn't I photocopy it first?

I would be more worried about some f***er at the post office stealing your identity myself.

4,737 · July 16, 2013

I would be more worried about some f***er at the post office stealing your identity myself.

Meh, I'm sure he'll have more fun with it than I ever did.

"Excuse me sir, we have reason to believe that you have fraudulently claimed over Ã‚Â£150,000 in benefits"

"I have?? Awesome!! Go me!!!"

25,278 · July 16, 2013

"Excuse me sir, we have reason to believe that you have fraudulently claimed over Ã‚Â£150,000 in benefits"

You are a Member of Parliament AICMÃ‚Â£5...

17,058 · July 17, 2013

First day of driver CPC training. Yaaaaaaaaay*

4.5k · July 17, 2013

"Hi, I'm looking for a classic car, It needs to be fun and be able to handle a daily 20 mile work commute, can anybody recommend me a car?"

Queue "Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB"

Get a TR7. Seriously, good ones are going cheap at the mo.

More cool IMO and MG people will hate you.

5,730 · July 17, 2013

"Hi, I'm looking for a classic car, It needs to be fun and be able to handle a daily 20 mile work commute, can anybody recommend me a car?"

Queue "Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB, Buy a MGB"

I had one. It taught me that they are massively overrated, especially when it comes to the driving experience, and that anything under 3-4K will be a terminally bodged shiteheap. They do look nice, though, and loads of people who know nothing about classic cars will praise you for owning a proper* classic.

27,996 · July 17, 2013

Get a TR7
More cool IMO

Meh.

and MG people will hate you.

WHERE DO I SIGN??

3,827 · July 17, 2013

....right here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1980-TRIUMPH-TR7-CONVERTIBLE-GREEN-PARTS-PROJECT-SPARES-REPAIRS-/261242567062?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3cd3453996#ht_369wt_1399

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